Kate Cook, MA, LPCC, TEP is a licensed professional clinical counselor and nationally board certified trainer and practitioner of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy. She joined the faculty at Southwestern College in 1990. Since 1994 Kate has been a trainer in Action Methods both locally and nationally. Kate maintains a private practice and is a counsultant and educator. She is the Director of Southwestern College's Certificate Program in Psychodrama and Action Methods.

Diane Haug, M.A., LPCC is a licensed therapist living in northern New Mexico and a senior member of the Grof Transpersonal Training staff. Her background includes a decade of working with adults and children dealing with life-threatening and terminal illness. Having completed the Grof's first three year training program, Diane has been involved with transpersonal psychology and the Holotropic Breathwork since 1986. Over the last years she has been deeply involved with the international breathwork community participating in Grof training events in Scandinavia, Russia, South America, and Europe. Diane has developed GTT training modules including Shamanism: An Exploration of Traditional Wisdom and The Language of the Soul: The Art and Practice of Integrating Deep Inner Experiences. She is an adjunct faculty member with Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and part-time Executive Director of the Ocamora Retreat Center. dianeh@newmexico.com

Toby Herzlich is a skilled facilitator and trainer with a background in leadership development, organizational excellence, conflict resolution, and participatory strategic planning. Her work focuses on developing leadership within progressive nonprofits, supporting values-based exploration in innovative entrepreneurial ventures, and cultivating visionary expression among women. She is also a trainer with the Rockwood Leadership Program, and is a co-designer and trainer of Cultivating Women's Leadership. Toby is presently Chairperson, Board of Directors of the Ocamora Retreat Center. toby@nets.com

Cynthia Jurs is an authorized Buddhist teacher ("dharmacharya") who has been practicing in both the Tibetan Vajrayana and Zen traditions for almost 30 years and received dharma transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh in 1994. She is the director of the Open Way Sangha in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she leads meditations, ceremonies and pilgrimages including the Tibetan practice of bringing healing and protection to the Earth by filling earth treasure vases and burying them in places of need around the world. She recently directed and produced the film, Turning Prayer Into Action: Indigenous Grandmothers meet the Bioneers.

Dean Lerner, M.S.:  co-director of the Center for Well Being and advanced Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor, has been practicing Yoga since the mid-1970's, teaching since 1980 and in the State College area since 1985. He has studied with Shri B.K. S. Iyengar on numerous occasions both in the USA and in India.  Dean also teaches workshops nationally and abroad.

Rebecca Lerner: co-director of the Center for Well Being and an Intermediate junior III Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor, has been practicing and teaching yoga since the 1970's. Rebecca has studied four times in India with Shri B.K.S. Iyengar.  In addition to public classes at the Center, Rebecca conducts private yoga therapy sessions giving students individualized yoga programs to suit their personal needs.  Rebecca has been the resident yoga teacher at the State College Friends School (k-8) since 1992.  Rebecca is also a professionally trained Bradley Method® Natural Childbirth educator

Marianne Murray is Program Director for the Academy for the Love of Learning, a member of the core facilitation team, and serves on the Board of Directors. She has a Ph.D. in transformative learning and an MA in transpersonal psychology. She emphasizes transpersonal practices in her work with individuals and groups, and is a breathwork practitioner, body worker, and systemic constellations facilitator. marianne@aloveoflearning.org

Wes Nisker has practiced Buddhist meditation for thirty years with various teachers in Asia and the West. He is the author of the best selling books, Buddha's Nature (Bantam), Essential Crazy Wisdom (Ten Speed Press), and The Big Bang, the Buddha, and the Baby Boom (Harper). Wes is the founder and co-editor of the Buddhist journal, Inquiring Mind and an affiliate teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. He teaches retreats and workshops internationally. wnisker@inquiringmind.com

Lon Rankin, MA, LMHC is a transpersonal psychotherapist with a private counseling practice in Santa Fe, NM. He is a bodyworker as well as a certified practitioner of Grof Holotropic Breathwork. Lon's passions include African and African based drumming, his work with the New Mexico Men's Wellness movement, and exploring the healing potential of the natural world.

Nina Simons is a social entrepreneur who is the co-founder of the Bioneers Conference. She translates her life experience into tools for serving the emerging leadership of others, and has focused increasingly on programming and teaching women's leadership (while actively cultivating her own) since 1997. She helps to reveal the correlations between inner awareness and outer work, and celebrate the interconnectedness of environment, health, social justice and the sacred. www.bioneers.org

Jan Edl Stein, MFT is the director of HOLOS Institute and a Jungian oriented psychotherapist with a deep interest in ecopsychology and the healing power of spiritual practice. She leads workshops and retreats in meditation, shamanic journeying and shamanic psychotherapy. She has taught at numerous venues including the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and Sonoma State University. Jan has maintained a private practice for over 18 years in San Francisco and Marin, which includes clinical supervision, individual and couples psychotherapy. Her spiritual explorations include a long involvement in the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Vipassana meditation, and shamanic traditions. janedl@earthlink.net

Aaron Stern is the director and founder of the Academy for the Love of Learning and serves as President of the Board. He designed the core curriculum, which is at the heart of all Academy programs, and directs its facilitation team. He is a composer, performer, educator and former dean of the American Conservatory of Music. He consults with educational, arts, spiritual and social-change organizations and communities, worldwide. He is also trained and certified as a transpersonal therapist. aaron@aloveoflearning.org

Monica Wikman, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst and author of Pregnant Darkness: Alchemy and the Rebirth of Consciousness (2005) and various articles in Jungian psychology journals. Monika obtained her BA from UC San Diego and her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, where her research took her deep into the study of dreams of people with terminal cancer. After teaching graduate students at California State University, Los Angeles, she graduated as a diplomat from the Jung-Von Franz Center for Depth Psychology in Zurich. She lectures internationally on mythology and symbolism, dreams and wellness, alchemy and creativity. In private practice as a Jungian Analyst and astrologer, she lives along a creek and under starry skies in Tesuque, New Mexico with horses, dogs, and friends.
www.monikawikman.com